In the quiet stairwell of the St. Freya High School student dormitory, the sound of rapid running, 'tata', suddenly echoed as a male student, panting slightly, rushed towards the third floor.
Perhaps because of Theresa's message earlier, even in the stairwell, Li Xuan could occasionally hear the sound of silvery laughter coming from the dormitory rooms, seemingly from the playful banter of girls.
"I'm back!" Li Xuan hastily took out his key and opened the door. He casually kicked off his shoes in the entryway, not in the mood to put them back in the shoe cabinet...
"What are you guys doing?..." Li Xuan raised his head and saw Liv and Yaoye standing strangely in front of his room, their expressions somewhat curious...
"Welcome back, Master..." Liv saw the panting Li Xuan, was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile.
"Yo~ Big brother." Yaoye ran over in a few small steps and hugged Li Xuan's arm, saying excitedly, "I just felt a strange Honkai energy fluctuation in your room..."
"So it's true..." Li Xuan stood quietly in front of his room. Even through the door, he could clearly feel a force calling out to him.
"Let's go in..." Li Xuan glanced at Liv and Yaoye behind him and said softly. He reached out, gripped the doorknob, and forcefully opened the door...
"Whoosh whoosh~" The white curtains by the window, which was not tightly closed, were constantly being blown up by the wind. The golden Familiar Egg, which had grown to the size of a bucket, stood quietly on the table by the window. The originally flawless golden eggshell now had cracks all over it, and a faint scarlet light could be vaguely seen emanating from within.
"Sakura..." Li Xuan looked at the already hatched Familiar Egg and said softly. As if hearing his voice, the golden Familiar Egg suddenly made 'crack crack' sounds of breaking again.
The next moment, cherry blossom-colored petals appeared out of thin air around the Familiar Egg. They were not real petals but rather condensations of scarlet energy, existing like illusions. There were even three blood-red magatama circling the Familiar Egg, slowly rotating like the moon around the Earth.
"..." Under the slightly nervous gaze of Li Xuan and the others, the Familiar Egg finally began its final stage... A layer of white light enveloped the entire egg, and a huge wave of energy suddenly erupted from within...
"Beep beep!~" The Honkai energy detector in the academy suddenly beeped twice at this moment, then returned to calm as the Honkai energy suddenly disappeared, as if the sounds just now were an illusion...
"This is..." Li Xuan's eyes widened in disbelief at the scene before him... The hazy white light around the Familiar Egg suddenly burst into brilliance like a large incandescent lamp... After a dazzling flash of light, the golden Familiar Egg silently disappeared...
"..." Li Xuan's eyes met the figure sitting on the table, slowly raising its head. A petite body that looked to be only 1.4 meters tall, a slightly immature face, waist-long cherry-colored hair, and sapphire-blue eyes... and a white fox that the small figure held in its arms like a pet cat...
'Sakura...' Li Xuan said as if in a dream. He reached out a finger, wanting to touch the other person...
"Hungry..." The young Sakura, who looked exactly like Yae Sakura as a child, suddenly pouted, and her ocean-blue eyes suddenly filled with tears...
"Sakura... don't cry... I'll go get you something to eat." Li Xuan looked at Sakura, who was on the verge of tears, and was at a loss... Familiars get hungry too... What do Familiars eat?! Rice?!
"Liv, is there any food... quick, get it..." Li Xuan turned his head and said to Liv behind him, a bit anxiously.
"Big brother... Familiars can eat Honkai energy crystals directly..." Yaoye sighed as she saw the flustered Li Xuan and reminded him, feeling a bit sour inside... as if her brother was no longer her own.
"Oh!~ Right, right..." Li Xuan stopped in his tracks with a sudden realization and hurriedly tried to take out a Honkai energy crystal from his ring as quickly as possible...
"Clang!~..." In his haste, Li Xuan accidentally took out the wrong Honkai energy crystal and instead took out a strange material he had wished for before, 'Scarlet Sakura's Will'. The smooth crystal surface of 'Scarlet Sakura's Will' caused Li Xuan to accidentally drop it on the ground.
"Hmm?!" Yae Sakura noticed the cherry blossom petal-like crystal item on the ground. It seemed as if one could see falling cherry blossom petals in the center of the crystal... The energy contained within made Yae Sakura's eyes flash with a hint of desire.
"Yee yee ya ya!" Yae Sakura, holding the little fox with its eyes still closed, jumped down from the table in a daze, snatching the 'Will of the Scarlet Sakura' from the floor and stuffing it directly into her little mouth.
"Crunch!~" A somewhat piercing sound was heard. The hard 'Scarlet Sakura's Will', to Li Xuan's surprise, was directly bitten off by Yae Sakura, leaving only a small piece... Yae Sakura blinked her big eyes, and somewhat reluctantly stuffed the remaining small piece, covered in saliva, into the mouth of the fox in her arms.
"She... ate it...?!" Li Xuan was stunned for a moment before he reacted. Although he knew that Familiars could eat Honkai energy crystals and use Honkai energy as a power source to sustain their life activities... he didn't expect that materials could also be eaten by Familiars...
"...Ha~ Hah~" Yae Sakura, who had just eaten the 'Scarlet Sakura's Will', suddenly started to get sleepy. She hugged the little fox, yawned, and closed her eyes against the wall behind her...
"......" Li Xuan looked at Yae Sakura, who had fallen asleep in less than ten seconds, with complicated feelings...
"Master, Miss Yae Sakura seems to have fallen asleep..." Liv, with a motherly instinct, stepped forward and picked up Yae Sakura, who had fallen asleep on the ground. She turned and said to Li Xuan.
"Mm, yeah," Li Xuan said with a complicated expression. "Take Sakura to my bed to rest. I'll take care of her..."
"Mm, okay, Master..." Liv nodded in understanding. Then she looked at Li Xuan's somewhat gloomy face and asked with some confusion, "Master, why do you seem a bit unhappy?"
"...Sakura has never fed me anything..." Li Xuan said as if his heart was breaking.
"..." Could it be that you're a lolicon?!
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In St. Freya High School, Kiana, who had just finished a day of part-time work, stretched and rubbed her shoulders... Having just gotten out of the shower, she also had to start on the homework she had been putting off.
"Gotta finish this quickly! I still have games to play today!" Kiana said, holding her pen and encouraging herself.
"Hmm?... What's this?!" Kiana opened her workbook and suddenly saw a strange piece of paper tucked inside...
"Gungnir...?" Kiana read out the first words on the paper, and then she saw the four large words 'Confidential Information' on it...
"Why are there so many words?!..." Kiana was interested in reading it because of the 'Confidential' written on it, but she couldn't help but complain about the densely packed small words...
'Couldn't they have drawn it as a manga?' Kiana frowned and patiently read on...
The clock ticked slowly, making a 'tick-tock' sound... Unconsciously, it was already late at night... Kiana, under the desk lamp, finally finished reading all the information...
"Gungnir..." She couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise...
(End of Chapter)